35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 10227.111. Community-Based Health Care Program: Community-Based Health Care Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2013
Establishes the Community-Based Health Care Program to expand and improve health care access and services, such as preventive care, chronic care and disease management, prenatal, obstetric, postpartum and newborn care, dental treatment, behavioral health and …
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 10227.112. Powers and duties of department: Community-Based Health Care Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2013
Describes the powers and duties of the department, including putting together an annual report assessing the impact of the program.
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 10227.113. Hospital health clinics: Community-Based Health Care Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2013
Describes the department’s role in establishing hospital health clinics.
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 448.802a. Definitions: Health Care Facilities Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1980
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given them in this section.
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 448.804. Administration: Health Care Facilities Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1980
The department shall administer this chapter so as to encourage innovation and experimentation in health care and health care facilities consistent with the provisions of this chapter and shall encourage contributions of private funds and …
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 448.806c. Consumer protections: Health Care Facilities Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2006
Each consumer or the consumer’s legal representative or responsible family member shall receive an information packet from the home care agency or home care registry prior to the commencement of services which includes the specified …
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 448.808. Issuance of license: Health Care Facilities Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1980
The department shall issue a license to a health care provider when it is satisfied that the specified standards have been met including whether a certificate of need has been issued if one is necessary. …
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 448.814. Provider violations: Health Care Facilities Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1980
When the health care provider has failed to bring the facility into compliance within the time specified by the department, or when the facility has demonstrated that it is unwilling or unable to achieve compliance, …
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 448.817. Actions against violations of law, rules and regulations: Health Care Facilities Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1980
Whenever any person, regardless of whether such person is a licensee, has violated any of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations issued pursuant thereto, the department may maintain an action in the name …
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 448.817a. Employment of health care practitioners: Health Care Facilities Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2003
A health care practitioner may practice the healing arts as an employee or independent contractor of a health care facility or health care provider or an affiliate of a health care facility or health care …
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35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 449.10 – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted
Providers that information collected by the PHC4 is for the benefit of the public and public officials, and that determinations on whether the information should be released under the states Right-to-Know Law should be made …
35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 449.11 – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted
Allows any Pennsylvanian agency “to study and report on the short-term and long-term fiscal and programmatic impact on the health care consumer of changes in ownership of hospitals from nonprofit to profit, whether through purchase, …
35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 449.6 – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted
Authorizes the PHC4 to collect data on provider quality and provider services under the Uniform Claims and Billing Form that the PHC4 maintains. The Council is required to collect, among other things, patient demographic information, …
35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 449.7 – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted
Requires that the PHC4 issue certain public reports (see here) using the data collected under § 449.6 (see above). The reports must contain information on provider quality and service effectiveness ranked against performance and cost …
35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 449.9 – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted
Creates a Mandated Benefits Review Panel to review mandated benefits proposals in the legislature to determine the fiscal, economic, and social impact of such initiatives based on data submitted by proponents and opponents of the …
35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 7311. Trade secrets: Worker and Community Right-to-Know Act – Pennsylvania
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1984
Upon the request of a health professional who is not a treating physician or nurse, an employer, supplier, manufacturer or importer shall disclose information which is claimed as a trade secret under the same conditions …
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